 | Sir Frederick Pollock, Ella Fuller Maitland - 1898 - 358 strani
...surpassed even in "Lycidas." This, for example, which I see people are beginning to use as a quotation : "All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Still more choice, perhaps, is this : "Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless... | |
 | Sir Frederick Pollock, Ella Fuller Maitland - 1898 - 368 strani
...surpassed even in "Lycidas." This, for example, which I see people are beginning to use as a quotation : "All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Still more choice, perhaps, is this : "Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless... | |
 | Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, Robert Drew Hicks - 1899 - 518 strani
...Works and Days, All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase ; Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers ; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1899 - 254 strani
...exemplified than in the line which at once praises Virgil for this particular gift and illustrates it: All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. Yet, like Virgil, he seldom parades his graces; he seldom deviates into extravagance. Exception must... | |
 | Ella Fuller Maitland, Frederick Pollock - 1899 - 380 strani
...surpassed even in "Lycidas." This, for example, which I see people are beginning to use as a quotation : " All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Still more choice, perhaps, is this : '' Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1899 - 250 strani
...exemplified than in the line which at once praises Virgil for this particular gift and illustrates it: All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. Yet, like Virgil, he seldom parades his graces; he seldom deviates into extravagance. Exception must... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 390 strani
...evidently studied Virgil's verse." Warren mentioned the " lonely word " in the " Ode to Virgil " : All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. " Yes," my father said, and quoted " cunctantem ramum " in Book v1. as an instance. " In 1 He was working... | |
 | 1899 - 876 strani
...forget how " all the chosen coin of fancy " is often to be found flashing out from the epithet ! " All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." I dare not allow myself to quote instances ; but I strongly advise the teacher to record such when... | |
 | Charles Edwin Bennett, George Prentice Bristol - 1899 - 364 strani
...blissful years again to be, Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea ; " Thou that see'st Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind, Thou majestic in ihy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind." This, to be sure, is the tribute of a poet, but I... | |
 | Walter Rowlands - 1900 - 380 strani
...of the Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of Virgil's death, addresses him as " Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Tennyson, in thus referring to the great Roman singer, had in mind his Georgics, those poems on the... | |
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Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word... 
